In addition to our Warcraft movie feature on all the Easter Eggs, we've got a roundup of assorted movie news, including box office numbers and red carpet footage!

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Wowhead Weekly #83

Wowhead Weekly #83 is all about the movie! We discuss our opinions of the film, talk about our experience on the red carpet, and highlight our past coverage including exclusive movie featurettes on Wowhead. We've also launched a series of new player guides if you're picking up the game after seeing the movie!

Wowhead Weekly is a World of Warcraft podcast with Wowhead Site Manager Perculia and Video Manager TradeChat where all the recent Blizzard news and Wowhead developments are discussed. You can subscribe to our YouTube Channel to see every episode. We also livestream each episode Friday afternoons, starting at 6pm EST, on twitch.tv/wowhead. If you subscribe to our twitch channel, you can get Pepe and rocket emotes!

Movie Premiere

We still have more interviews to post, but here are some pictures and interviews with Travis Fimmel and Jamie Lee Curtis!

Box Office Updates

Deadline reports a second-place opening weekend for Warcraft in the US, as well as a very strong showing in China:

Warcraft‘s industry forecasts have simmered down from yesterday’s hype to an estimated $25.7M opening weekend in second place at 3,400 theaters. Yes, that’s an awful domestic opening for a film that cost $160M, but the Universal-Legendary co-production was built to reap the majority of its cost back from China where close to half of the game’s 5.6M fans reside. As of this morning, China is on fire with a four-day B.O. of $145M. Deadline hears that Warcraft could end its run in the Middle Kingdom with $200M-$250M. In total a $500M global tally gets this ambitious humans vs. orcs story at break-even. Uni and Legendary rolled Warcraft out abroad first to avoid any stateside damage. Too often if a film bombs here, it can poison its tills abroad.

Other notable numbers from the article:

31% of the opening-day crowd in the US identified as a gamer.

The under-18 crowd made up 9% of the crowd and rated Warcraft A-

64% of the audience were males; 64% of that audience segment were also over 25.

Warcraft made $10.7M on Friday, $8.6M Saturday, and likely $6.4M on Sunday.

Box Office Mojo has a good breakdown of earnings in each country. Warcraft is currently at $286 million worldwide, with China in first place, 92% of profits from overseas, and Russia in 3rd place with $19 million.

Making of Warcraft Armor and Weapons

Weta Workshop has released a video describing the process used to create over 600 weapons and 100 sets of armor for Warcraft.

You can also purchase miniature versions of some of the popular gear pieces from the Blizzard Gear Shop and WETA Workshop. The video explains that the same people worked on the movie weapons and the replicas, using the same techniques, so you're getting movie-quality items.

In addition, TheRingLord.com made a Facebook post talking about all the chainmail work they did for the movie, which included:

88 sets of chainmail, requiring 30 chainmailers over the course of 3 months.

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Grabovsky의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T12:55:55-05:00

While disappointing US sales, its good to see it do well abroad. It got a lot of poor reviews, and from a non-fan perspective, they have a lot of points. A lot of characters and places thrown in quickly, and both sides are portrayed as the good guys. While most WoW fans wont have a problem with this, it goes against most films in america. I loved it, but it really was a movie for fans, just a good thing that blizz has a huge fan base around the world.

neoslayyer의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T13:00:45-05:00

That Deadline assessment is exactly the numbers i came up with saturday morning in my post. I put it at 30-40 mil, i also said that it was on the high side in case more than just people attached to the franchise went to see the movie also.

Not to bad.

Mightylorddk의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T13:26:11-05:00

People from USA are so stupid, they are relying on stupid critics and not watching this movie. Such shame. Well, can't expect more from McDonalds and Fox News fanboys

ahunter8056의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T15:12:36-05:00

While disappointing US sales, its good to see it do well abroad. It got a lot of poor reviews, and from a non-fan perspective, they have a lot of points. A lot of characters and places thrown in quickly, and both sides are portrayed as the good guys. While most WoW fans wont have a problem with this, it goes against most films in america. I loved it, but it really was a movie for fans, just a good thing that blizz has a huge fan base around the world.

While I admit the film is flawed in terms of pacing and character focus, it's had very positive audience reception, among fans and non-fans alike. It's just critic reception that is bad, and really, you can't do anything but laugh at the ridiculous criticisms these critics make.

I've read one critic review comparing the film to modern day refugees coming to Europe, despite this being a film adaptation of a 20 year old story that is also heavily fantasy. I've read another critic review complaining that the Orcs "did not look realistic enough", despite the fact that Orcs do not exist. A lot of critic reviews also make comparisons to Lord of the Rings, and that is just so stupid. You just cannot do that. They are two completely separate franchises, with no connection to each other, and so any comparisons are laughable.

Really, critics tend to just be miserable people, you only have to read one of their reviews to pick that up. They just really want to blindly hate this film for no reason. They don't understand it, because they simply do not want to understand it, they just want to hate it, because that's the kind of people they are.

KenjiT28의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T15:52:15-05:00

Haters gonna hate sums it all up. I liked the film, went with someone who had never played and now he wants to.

Adrager1의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T16:01:33-05:00

I have to say I really enjoyed the movie...well done Blizzard Well done.

Humby13의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T17:11:51-05:00

I am in a media ban atm from all yours and other twitch broadcasts until after the movie releases as I dont want any spoilers now the Americans have seen it and believe its open slather on spoiling. Movie dowsnt release until 16 June here and will be seeing it that night. Dont know if its possible but with all your contact with the producers of this movie, that if they release a sequel can they for the love of god do a world release rather than this staggered archaic release crap. It fractures the world community talking about it !

tonydizzle의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T17:53:37-05:00

Not sure what they are talking about with the '$500M break-even' comment, the budget of the film was $160M.

Wutchu의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T18:15:16-05:00

Not sure what they are talking about with the '$500M break-even' comment, the budget of the film was $160M.

That's because the studios only receive a percent of profits from the box office. They receive a smaller percent from international ticket sales than they do from domestic.

Kjflood의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T18:37:36-05:00

they are relying on stupid critics and not watching this movie.

I simply REFUSE to pay a large amount of money to sit in the theater and have,people rudely talk through the entire movie,people on their cellphones tapping away through the entire movie, having children running up and down the aisles because their parents refuse to keep a leash on them,or the kids that are sitting down having popcorn/candy fights bouncing food off of me and anyone around them.

I will be buying the movie when it comes out on itunes though, so I can watch it a few times in the comfort and quiet of my own home.

MakoSDV의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T21:11:07-05:00

5.6M fans

I wonder if that's the new sub number.

Drahken의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T22:03:38-05:00

Jeez, what theater are you going to?

Monkeyking908의 댓글

on 2016-06-12T23:26:41-05:00

F*** the miniatures how much do i have to bleed to get a full size suit of armor and a sword and shield?

heartlessnobody의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T00:45:20-05:00

I wonder if the King wondered if he could bring the voice on over from Preacher?

Xxrrsteve의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T00:46:12-05:00

5.6M fans

I wonder if that's the new sub number.

I believe that's the last reported since last year (I think?). Since Blizzard stopped reporting sub numbers, it's anyone's guess.

bumblebetuna의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T01:27:58-05:00

Man, you can always count on blizz to screw over hoard fans... All the alliance weapon replicas are 1:1, while the horde weapons are only 1:6. Lame.

Alterrax의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T01:45:14-05:00

They shouldn't care about USA anyway. China & (and soon India) is and will be the new economic powerhouses. USA is rifled with problems currently and the average person there doesn't have money or sheer spending power like the Chinese. USA is done. It's more promising to be doing well in the Chinese market. In fact I think they should shift more marketing to these countries.

virgildraco의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T03:44:12-05:00

While disappointing US sales, its good to see it do well abroad. It got a lot of poor reviews, and from a non-fan perspective, they have a lot of points. A lot of characters and places thrown in quickly, and both sides are portrayed as the good guys. While most WoW fans wont have a problem with this, it goes against most films in america. I loved it, but it really was a movie for fans, just a good thing that blizz has a huge fan base around the world.

While I admit the film is flawed in terms of pacing and character focus, it's had very positive audience reception, among fans and non-fans alike. It's just critic reception that is bad, and really, you can't do anything but laugh at the ridiculous criticisms these critics make.

I've read one critic review comparing the film to modern day refugees coming to Europe, despite this being a film adaptation of a 20 year old story that is also heavily fantasy. I've read another critic review complaining that the Orcs "did not look realistic enough", despite the fact that Orcs do not exist. A lot of critic reviews also make comparisons to Lord of the Rings, and that is just so stupid. You just cannot do that. They are two completely separate franchises, with no connection to each other, and so any comparisons are laughable.

Really, critics tend to just be miserable people, you only have to read one of their reviews to pick that up. They just really want to blindly hate this film for no reason. They don't understand it, because they simply do not want to understand it, they just want to hate it, because that's the kind of people they are.

I agree, some of the critics are really stupid, i read one that said that the movie took itself too seriously, geez, what did you expect, Dumb and Dumber, it's a movie about war.

CaptainJitters의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T05:26:08-05:00

I went to see the movie last night with my dad at about 7:30. We were the first ones there, and only about six people showed up after that. We both really enjoyed the movie - my dad had played the Warcraft games in the past but didn't remember them much, but he recognized the orc structures! I helped explain some of what happened on the way home... but it was a pretty good movie. The worst part about it was introduction to characters, but you've only got so much time in a movie, and you don't want to rush the plot.But yeah. There were about 8 or 9 of us in that showing.

Seirana의 댓글

on 2016-06-13T07:23:23-05:00

>5.6M

That can't be current. I swear the sub numbers have gone up since the movie came out.

My server is usually dead silent (I like it that way for questing) and yesterday I got stuck in a login queue for the first time since WoD came out. Trade Chat was full of people asking nooby questions too, not bad ones just stuff like "What's the difference between Green and Blue items?" etc. Hopefully this means I won't have to have "WoW is dead!" stuffed in my ears constantly.